Polyethylene-Reflected Arrays of HEU(93.2) Metal Units Separated by Vermiculite | |
Gorham, Mackenzie ; Briggs, J. Blair ; Bess, John D. ; Dean, Virginia ; Reed, Davis | |
Idaho National Laboratory | |
关键词: Criticality; Icsbep; Testing; Polyethylene; Heu; | |
DOI : 10.2172/1004272 RP-ID : INL/EXT-10-17644 RP-ID : DE-AC07-05ID14517 RP-ID : 1004272 |
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美国|英语 | |
来源: UNT Digital Library | |
【 摘 要 】
This benchmark details the results of an experiment performed in the early 1970s as part of a series testing critical configurations in three dimensional arrays. For this experiment, cylinders of 93.2% enriched uranium metal were arranged in a 2x2x2 array inside of a polyethylene reflector. Layers of vermiculite of varying heights were surrounding each cylinder to achieve criticality variations. A total of four experimental configurations were tested by D.W. Magnuson, and detailed in his experimental report “Critical Three-Dimensional Arrays of Neutron Interacting Units: Part IV. Arrays of U(93.2) Metal Reflected by Concrete and Arrays Separated by Vermiculite and Reflected by Polyethylene.” The benchmark HEU-MET-FAST054 is closely related; the results of both experiments are discussed in the same report (Ref. 1) Closely related work has been recorded in HEU-MET-FAST-053, which is a benchmark evaluation of a different series of three dimensional array experiments with four different moderator materials. HEU-MET-FAST-023 and HEU-MET-FAST-026 are also related because they utilize the same metal cylinders as these experiments.
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